2H to engineer Kaombo risers

Aug. 14, 2014
Heerema Marine Contractors has named 2H Offshore to engineering the hybrid risers for Total’s Kaombo block 32 project offshore Angola.

Offshore staff

WOKING, UK –Heerema Marine Contractors has named 2H Offshore to engineering the hybrid risers for Total’s Kaombo block 32 project offshore Angola.

HMC and Technip are the EPCI and pre-commissioning forSURF contract holders.

2H will handle detailed engineering of the 18 single top tensioner risers (STTRs) for Kaombo, and is responsible for the engineering of the buoyancy tank, upper riser assembly, and lower riser assembly packages together with global analysis and systems engineering of the risers.

Kaombo, in water depths from 1,425 m to 1,925 m (4,674 ft to 6,314 ft), will include the Gindungo, Gengibre, Canela, Louro, Mostarda west, and Caril fields tied back to twoturret-moored FPSOs. The selected concept consists of a number of production loops with one insulated production riser and one non-insulated service riser per field. Water injection risers will also be required.